Dogs and parks

[Grassgreendashhabi]

Ok I know dogs need to be walked, but why are the children's areas so small. And the rest of the parks the grassy areas huge.

Why is it not possible for an outside track say 4 meters wide if not larger be fenced off for dogs leaving a centre area for children.

That way children can play football etc and dogs have a huge wide area going around the park.

Our local park is really big but it's covered in dog mess. Or dog wee. The children's area had swings etc and is dog free but there is nowhere to run around

The park must be 3 or 4 acres it could easily have an enormous outer circle easily 20ft wide circling.

It just seems that the dogs take priority over people.

Iamnitamindreader- read what I said in my replies. Not what you think I said!

Squatting, whilst peeing on grass??

I can't believe you're begrudging an elderly, disabled man from walking his dog on a lead.

You need to take a long, hard look at yourself.

Oh you lot are funny!

Where has the rat poison gone?? It's ok I'll find some next time I go and get some dog food

And yes I will begrudge an old man if he can't pick up his own dogs shit.

Where has the rat poison gone?? It's ok I'll find some next time I go and get some dog food

Because yes that's something funny to joke about isn't it?

Needac- well if people keep giving me sarcastic comments then I'll join in,

You have no idea whether that man could pick up his dog's shit or not.

I feel so sorry for the poor deluded people who don't like dogs.

OP why the duck have you posted in AIBU if you are so totally convinced that YANBU?

You do know pooper scoopers can come on a pole to allow him to pick up the poo right?

Did you actually see the dog poo and him leave?

Wyldfyre because she is one of those insular, delusional people who thinks things she doesn't like should be banned.

This just came up on my FB!

Impeccable timing. Sod the dogs, beware of the geese

They don't know what they are missing.

I went to a lovely country park near lincoln which had a fenced off picnic area. For people. It had five or six picnic benches and a bit of grass. Was great for eating lunch with my toddler. He could run about without escaping and we weren't pestered by any wildlife or dogs.
How's that for a solution?
Segregate the people who find dogs irritating from the rest of the park.

The thing is though. There's a disproportionate number of dogs being taken out to specifically soil in the park (rather than the owners house/ garden) whereas natural wildlife will be balanced to suit the space so your less likely to sit on fox pee, etc. Also I think they tend to do that sort of thing away from open spaces for safety, and bury the feaces. But don't let that stop you militant dog owners from being facetious.

Geese ... I was told once at a WWT place that the reason why they don't allow people to bring in dogs is not so much that they're worried about the dogs chasing wildfowl as they are about the geese attacking the dogs!

And at least dogs only shit on the ground, birds can shit on your head. We should put big nets over sections of parks!... *

• ( I'm a member of both the WWT and RSPB)

Who the heck takes their dog out specifically to 'soil in the park'?

You still have to pick the shit up, whether it's in your garden or the park. Why would you bother hoofing it to the park, then?

PaintedandPrints wildlife do not bury their faeces - as any dog owner whose had their pet roll on fox shit will testify to.

i think dog parks are the way ahead. fenced off so dogs can socialise and sniff each other. think they have them in the US.

There probably isn't much shit from other species left in the park by the time the off-lead dogs have transferred it onto their own heads

Nothingness I don't think they are a good idea at all. My girl has been attacked multiple times and generally avoids other dogs.

Unfortunately there are some very poorly mannered dogs out there who ignore her calming signals - with a less submissive dog and in a confined space it could easily end in a fight.

YouTube is full of canine body language tutorial, with much of the footage from US dog parks and often showing dogs being harassed and asking for help and not getting it because "they're just playing"

YANBU, I would prefer a much larger dog-free area for picnics, running around etc in our local park. I have a dog, I love dogs, but I would also love my toddler to be able to run around without constantly scanning the grass for poo.
This was campaigned for in a park local to me by putting flags in each poo and there were hundreds of flags. I really don't agree that other wildlife excrement is as much of a problem, I never see great heaps of it anywhere.